Vagina Monologue

I was interested to read the posts by MIchael and Rick linking the statements of the Presidents of Loyola and Notre Dame regarding performances on campus of the Vagina Monologues.  I should start by saying that I have never seen a production of the play and therefore can not speak to whether it treats women as sexual objects and degrades them, as one critic has charged, or whether it promotes the authentic human development of women.

Without regard to the merits of the play, I wonder whether part of the difference how Jenkins (Notre Dame) and Wildes (Loyola) speak about the issue has to do with the question of repeat vs. single performance.  Jenkins raises a concern about endorsement and refers a couple of times to the fact that the performance of Vagina Monologues has been an annual event at Notre Dame and the fear that the repeated performances convey a message of endorsement.  Although I may be wrong, I read Wildes to be speaking of a single event.

I think the endorsement question is an interesting one and wonder whether people think one ought to think differently about an annual event vs. a single showing of something that is inconsistent with Catholic views.